Accessibility statement

I’ve been making websites since 1998 and for a long time treated accessibility as an afterthought, focusing on compliance only. It wasn’t until I started working in the federal civic tech space in 2023 that I really started to understand how to design accessibly from the jump.

I don’t believe there is such a thing as a completely, 100% accessible for everybody all the time product, and knowing that actually gives me the freedom to make incremental change every day without worrying about getting it perfect.

I’ve learned so much from my colleagues Brian DeConinck, Eli Mellen, Jeana Clark, Jasmine Friedrich, Josh Kim, and David “DK” Kennedy.

Built with

This site runs on Jekyll, and is hosted on GitHub pages, using the jekyllBear theme by knhash with some of my own design mods. I’m using Aaron Gustafson’s jekyll_webmention-io plugin for gathering webmentions.

My current workflow is to write my posts in Obsidian and commit them to github with Vinzent03’s Obsidian Git plugin.